Sicarrio hit captured on camera

Sicario executed Ulises Rocha in front of security cameras and onlookers in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Mexico's murder rate reached another all-time high in the first half of 2020.

Chinatown gangster 'Fat Mark' who bribed Oakland cop gets life

Wing Wo Ma, 'Fat Mark', was sentenced to life in federal prison for murdering a husband and wife in Mendocino County. Ma, of Oakland, shot and killed Jim Tat Kong and Cindy Bao Feng Chen execution style in Fort Bragg in October 2013. Ma had borrowed money for a failed marijuana grow and a real estate scheme and his various scams were crashing down. After the killings, he called his longtime cop handler: former Oakland lieutenant, Harry Hu.

Ma was not only a confidential informant for Hu, he was bribing Hu and another Oakland cop with trips to Las Vegas and Reno, picking up tabs for drinks, hotel suites and “company of hostesses” in Vegas bars. Ma also leased a $46,000 car for Hu to use. Hu had helped Ma avoid arrest multiple times over the years. Hu took a plea deal and is scheduled to be sentenced later this month. He faces a one-year federal prison term.

Samark López Bello loses US assets of $318m

U.S. justice has dealt a blow to Samark López. He is frontman for Tareck El Aissami, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's right-hand man.

Seized assets in the United States include a Citibank account with $269m, two yachts, a plane, and luxury properties in Miami. In March the DoJ charged El Aissami and 14 other current and former Venezuelan officials with narco-terrorism, corruption and drug trafficking. Samark López Bello is El Aissami’s principal frontman and owns about a dozen companies linked to Venezuela’s current oil minister. López was sanctioned by the United States in 2017 as a drug lord along with El Aissami. There is a reward of up to $10m for information leading to El Aissami’s arrest.

Edén Guadalupe Villarreal Gómez arrested in Nuevo Laredo

Guadalupe Villarreal, known as The Lieutenant, is considered an important member of the Northeast Cartel. She was a state cop before joining the Northeast Cartel in 2014. She is considered one of the integral pillars of the gang and is described as "extremely violent." The 41-year-old was arrested in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, along with her girlfriend, without incident. The Lieutenant was in charge of the nightclubs and bars in Boys Town, Nuevo Laredo's red light district, where human trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, torture and murder are common.

Villarreal Gómez had the absolute trust of leader of the Northeast Cartel Juan Gerardo Treviño, “Huevo.” The Northeast Cartel was founded in 2014 as a breakaway group from the Los Zetas cartel. The Northeast Cartel is fighting against the Gulf Cartel to control drug trafficking along the Tamaulipas-Texas border.

World’s Most Wanted: Netflix

Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada García

A new true-crime documentary on Netflix profiles the world’s most wanted criminals. Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada García is leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. He has never been arrested nor charged with any offense. Félicien Kabuga was the richest man in Rwanda. He bankrolled and participated in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He was finally arrested in France on 16 May 2020.

Félicien Kabuga

Samantha Lewthwaite

The 'White Widow' is the widow of London terrorist bomber Germaine Lindsay. Lewthwaite is the world’s most wanted female terrorist. Matteo Messina Denaro is the last Godfather of the Sicilian Mafia. After the death of bosses Provenzano and Riina, Denaro became the 'boss of all bosses.'

Matteo Messina Denaro

U.S. alleges RICO Fraud at Saipan Casino

U.S. prosecutors indicted three Chinese, Liwen Wu, Jianmin Xu, and Yan Shi. They were employed building the massive gaming resort in Saipan, a remote U.S. territory in the middle of the Pacific. With visa fraud for Chinese construction workers, prosecutors allege a huge money laundering operation.

Saipan was one of the highest-grossing casinos in the world in 2015 despite being half finished.

Betting volumes declined precipitously and the casino is in dire straits. It is expected to shutter.

Controlled by Chinese businesswoman Cui Lijie, state owned Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd. relied on former directors of the FBI and CIA, as well as the former governors of New York and Pennsylvania as directors or advisers.

Dopey cops leave body of Randy Joseph Chan in burnt truck for a week

Burnaby Mounties were called to Mundie’s Towing after human remains were found in a vehicle by an insurance adjuster. The vehicle was discovered on fire in Burnaby a few kilometres away the previous Wednesday. The remains are those of Randy Joseph Chan. Cops sent an advisory a week after Chan disappeared on the 21st, saying he had a 'significant' history with police. Chan was a member of the Lotus Gang, brother to boss Raymond and kidnapped in 1996 by "Bindy" Singh Johal.

Former German HA boss Frank Hanebuth fined 4,000 euros

Hanebuth was nailed for simple bodily harm and fined 4,000 euros.

The trial of notorious rocker boss Frank Hanebuth in Hanover resulted in fines. Hanebuth was involved with full patch HA in the beating of a car mechanic.

198 kg meth seized at US-BC border

A man was arrested in a blueberry field, and cops seized an ATV and trailer containing bags of meth totaling 198 kg, or nearly 440 pounds.

American Zacchary Marcus Scott Hecock has been charged with the importation and possession of methamphetamine for the purpose of trafficking and remanded in custody. During the hunt for the second suspect, which got away, two migrant farm workers were detained at gunpoint and later released. Both have filed complaints. The case is likely one of the largest seizures of meth in Canadian history.

Chinese cops take down $6b Plus Token Ponzi, arrest 109

The Plus Token scheme suckered more than 2m. It has swindled more than 40 billion yuan ($5.7 billion) from it's mostly Chinese and Korean victims. 27 masterminds were described running a "huge multinational MLM organization network entrenched at home and abroad.” In June, six people connected to the scam were arrested. However, stolen funds continued to move through wallets and be cashed out through independent OTC brokers. The scammers were still at large. Plus Token relied heavily in conferences and meetings to bring new money into the scheme.